Howard Dean & I Are Too Liberal
By Vince Leibowitz
As most of you know, I'm the County Chairman of the Democratic Party in Van Zandt County--half way between Dallas and Tyler in East Texas.
Well, today one of our local Justices of the Peace defected and went to the other side. I knew it was coming, as the Republicans here have been hounding local elected officials and telling them that our party has grown "too liberal" at the local level for them to be affiliated with it. Since this guy wasn't even a nominal Democrat at best, I was unsurprised. (You can read my press release on it here).
But, I found it amusing that in the news release announcing his switch (sorry, the newspaper doesn't have it online) that he noted, he could "no longer in good coneience follow the leadership of the national Democratic party or the local Democratic Party."
Though I guess Chairman Soechting got exempted from this triad (ha, ha) by an ex Baptist minister now delivering the Wrath of God from the bench, I found it quite amusing to be listed in the company of none other than Howard Dean. I guess we're both just too liberal.
Posted by Vince Leibowitz at August 10, 2005 09:02 PM
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